Wyberslegh Hall is a large house dating from the 16th century, on the edge of the village of High Lane

High Lane

High Lane is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. Historically within Cheshire, it is five miles from Stockport, on the Macclesfield Canal. It has a population of 5852.-Governance:...

 in Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester

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, England

England

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. Now in private ownership, Wyberslegh Hall was formerly the home of eldest sons of the Bradshaw family. Of unusual design, it has castellated gables

Gables

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 with a rather ungainly castellated wall between them, above the main entrance. Hardly a handsome house but an historic one. As Wyberslegh Hall was rented from the Stanley

Earl of Derby

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 family before Marple Hall was purchased in 1606, it is likely that John Bradshaw

John Bradshaw (judge)

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 was born there in 1602. More recently, the author Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood was an English-American novelist.-Early life and work:Born at Wyberslegh Hall, High Lane, Cheshire in North West England, Isherwood spent his childhood in various towns where his father, a Lieutenant-Colonel in the British Army, was stationed...

 was born there.

The hall was designated a Grade II listed building in 1967.